Lime! (No Not the Round Green Kind)

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I former student contacted me recently to ask about the use of lime for tanning, as she is tanning a goat skin to make a drum. Seriously, I love when students bring random chemistry questions from their lives to me. Finding out the answers is fascinating. In case you too were wondering about this, there is a great, short, and easy to read article on that here originally published in Industrial & Engineering Chemistry.